Garment-hanger.



W. A. v. PORTER. GARMENT HANGER.

APPLIUATION FILED NOV. 21, 1912.

Patented July 1, 1913.

COLUMBIA PLANOGRAPH (20., wAsHINGTpN, 0. cv

UNHEED srarns WILLIAM A. V. PORTER, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

GARMENT-HANGER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 1 1913.

Application filed November 21, 1912. SerialNo. 732,715.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, WILLIAM A. V. Pon- TER, a citizen of the United States, and resident of the borough of Manhattan, in the city and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Garment- Hangers, of which the following is a specification.

One object of my invention is to provide a garment hanger which may be very readily placed in position for use in connection with a shelf or other equivalent support.

A further object is to provide a garment hanger of the above character which may be readily extended and contracted to suit different requirements.

A still further object is to provide a device of this character which will be very simple in construction, inexpensive to manufacture and which will not require the use of screws or other fastening means for attachment.

Practical embodiments of the invention are represented in the accompanying drawings in which,

Figure 1 represents a portion of a shelf in top plan, with one form of my garment hanger attached thereto, the hanger being shown contracted in full lines and extended in dotted lines. Fig. 2 is a front View of the same. Fig. 3 is a cross section in the plane of the line A-A. of Fig. 2. Fig. 4: is a perspectiveview of a modified form of my improved garment hanger, and Fig. 5 is a perspective view of another form of my hanger on a smaller scale.

In the form shown in Figs. 1, 2 and 8, the hanger comprises a tubular member 1 and two members each comprising a wire rod bent to form a horizontal garment supporting member 2, a series of open loops 3, an uprising arm 4- and a flattened hook 5, said flattened hook being arranged to embrace a shelf 6 and have an extended engagement with the top and bottom thereof. The tubular member 1 is slidable on the horizontal garment suspending portions 2, thus permitting the hanger to be extended or contracted to suit diiferent requirements.

In Fig. 4, the series of open loops 3 in the horizontal garment suspending portions of the hanger are dispensed with.

p In Fig. 5, a non-extensible garment hanger is shown, in which a single wire rod is bent to form the two flattened hook portions and the intermediate garment suspending por-' tion.

It is obvious that the several forms shown and described herein are only a few of the many different forms which my garment hanger may assume, without departing from the spirit and scope of my invention.

It will be seen that the hanger constructed substantially as herein shown and described, may be readily applied to a shelf without the use of separate fastening means and may be quickly adjusted to diflerent positions along the shelf as desired.

What I claim is:

1. A garment hanger comprising two wire rods each bent to form a horizontal garment suspending portion, an uprising arm and a horizontally arranged flattened hook for extended engagement with the top and bottom of a shelf, and a tube slidable on said horizontal garment suspending portions.

2. A garment hanger comprising two wire rods each bent to form a horizontal garment suspending portion, an uprising arm and a horizontally arranged flattened hook for eX-' tended engagement with the top and bottom of a shelf, and a tube slidable on said horizontal garment suspending portions, one or both of said horizontal garment suspending portions having a series of open loops.

In testimony, that I claim the foregoing as my invention, I have signed my name in presence of two witnesses, this nineteenth day of November, 1912.

WILLIAM A. V. PORTER. WVitnesses F. GEORGE BARRY, C. S. SUNDGREN.

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' Washington, D. G. 

